Re: end-of-sentence full stop in XSL:FO?

Here's a link that deals with the issue. It gives a decent set of cases
for programmatically identifying whether a period ends a sentence.

http://bulba.sdsu.edu/~malouf/ling571/17handout.pdf

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services




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Hallvchen!

"W. Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Torsten Bronger wrote:
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>> I'm looking for a way to distinguish between abbreviation dots
>> and those that end a sentence in XML.  Apparently Unicode doesn't
>> offer a clean solution to this (does it?), so I wondered whether
>> the XSL:FO standard has something for this problem?  If so, it is
>> well hidden I'm afraid ...
>
> Can you explain why you need to make this distinction? [...]

After a sentence, a bigger skip should be inserted (in certain
languages).  This distinction in made by TeX, and I write an XML to
LaTeX converter.  I need a way to preserve the end-of-sentence
information in the XML markup.  There are a couple of ways of
course, all of which more or less inelegant.

I just want to know whether there is already a way to express that,
so that I avoid re-inventing it.

Tschv,
Torsten.

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